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Around The Horn
29 April 2021
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Helsinki, India, Li Huaifeng, Alena Kakhanovich, camera prejudices, birding and a weather contest.
- Helsinki Photos has opened its Treasure Trove of Helsinki-Themed Photos for free use. Over 65,000 images can be searched by keyword. Looking for "hotel" yielded 47 photos, for example.
- Photographers are Covering India's Covid Horror, "But at what cost?" asks Jaishree Kumar. Five photographers talk about what it's been like for them.
- Li Huaifeng has been named Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2021 for an image titled Taste, taken in Licheng, Shanxi. More category winners of the international food photo contest are highlighted in the story as well.
- In Sleeping Garden, Alena Kakhanovich presents her project "about the transformation of our souls in times of crisis, when life stops like a sleeping garden."
- After editing some old image files, Kirk Tuck rethinks some of his old Camera Prejudices. That Nikon D200 with the 18-200mm Nikkor (which we frequently resort to here, BTW) turns out to have a done a serviceable job in 2006 after all.
- Jim Kasson compares Using the Fujifilm 250/4 and 1.4TC on the GFX 100S vs. FF Alternatives, in this case a Nikon Z 7 with the Nikon 180-400mm zoom. With an eye toward birding, where aliasing is often an issue, he notes. "The Nikon combination is materially sharper, even though the pixel pitch is coarser," he writes. But "my take is that, especially for birds, for which aliasing is often an issue, the 250/4 and the 1.4x TC isn't a bad choice."
- The Royal Meteorological Society's Weather Photographer of the Year 2021 competition is now accepting submissions. The contest is free to enter and open to everyone.
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